Saturday, 26 April 2014

When I say that rock stars have sold their souls to the devil and do the devils work in the world, you say that there is no devil so they can't.

But because there is no devil does not mean there are not people who believe that there is a devil and do what they believe to be his work in the world.

You then say, there is no devil so it doesn't do anything.

But they still tell people to take drugs.
They still tell young girls to behave like sex objects.
They still tell us to sin and be wicked.
They still tell us to be filthy.
They still tell us to have affairs.
And to get tattoos.
And to abandon our faith.

And that's just the tip of the iceberg.
I shudder to think what is concealed below the surface and backtracked in their music.

Saturday, 19 April 2014

These are the words I remember this Easter Sunday.
When Jesus was raised from the dead.

Like so many dictators and tyrants the Pharisees and the Romans assumed that death was the end. They had dealt with the threat to their power and that was the end of it.

But on Easter Sunday Jesus rose from the dead.
And passed into eternal life.

This was the action of God in response to the murderous actions of the Pharisees and Romans.

This is the victory of life over death.

And the fate of the Light.

[Scripture quotations (marked NRSV) are taken from the New Revised Standard Version Bible, copyright 1989 by the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the U.S.A., and are used by permission. All rights reserved.]

The two factions are ruled by two significant planets:
Fundamentalism is ruled by Saturn,
The Progressive faction is ruled by Uranus.

These two planets are the co-rulers of Aquarius.

Another body - the asteroid Chiron - orbits between Saturn and Uranus.

Chiron was a centaur - half man, half horse - who was a learned and gifted healer.
He taught Asclepius the physician and trained many heroes including Achilles.
He was also an astrologer and an oracle.

He is called the wounded healer because he could heal others' wounds but not his own wound (accidentally inflicted by Hercules poisoned arrow).

Chiron bring healing to the conflict between Saturn and Uranus.
He heals the wounds which each has inflicted on the other.

It is unclear at this stage how final peace will be brought about between Saturn and Uranus but the future of the Age of Aquarius depends upon it.

Because both planets rule Aquarius it is unlikely that one will win out over the other. Both planets will still be present.

Tuesday, 1 April 2014

"'"You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind." This is the greatest and first commandment. And a second is like it: "You shall love your neighbor as yourself." On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.'" Matthew 22:37-40 (NRSV)

So the heart of Jesus teaching is Love.

Not morality, not obedience, not good works, not self-denial, not repentance, not purity, not sacrifice, not fear.....

But Love.

If you follow these commandments you will find God.

[Scripture quotations (marked NRSV) are taken from the New Revised Standard Version Bible, copyright 1989 by the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the U.S.A., and are used by permission. All rights reserved.]